The Effectiveness of Army Training Extension Course Lessons on Videodisc

Abstract

Three sets of audiovisual lessons from the Army Training Extension Course (TEC) Program were presented to samples of enlisted soldiers on either a prototype videodisc player or the film and audio cassette player currently used for TEC lessons. The training effectiveness of the lessons was determined by administering validated hands-on performance tests to the trained soldiers and also to a baseline group that had not viewed the TEC lessons. Initial results show that, for all three sets of lessons, both groups of trained soldiers performed significantly better than those in the baseline group. The difference between the two trained groups is not statistically significant for two of the three lesson sets; for the third set, there is a significant difference of ten percent in mean performance test score in favor of the film and audio cassette player.